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Bipartisan group for blockchain

Labor and Coalition parliamentarians have banded together to throw support behind a measures aiming to support the burgeoning bitcoin and blockchain sectors in Australia. The Parliamentary Friends of Blockchain...

GigCity network lights up Adelaide

The South Australian government has flicked the switch on “ultra-fast” internet in Adelaide, making it “one of the most connected cities in the world”. The $7.6 million GigCity Adelaide...

Gavin Slater’s big fat DTA reboot

Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Gavin Slater has delivered his first public speech since taking on the vexed role three months ago, outlining his five key priorities for the...

Where to now for LaunchVic?

The credibility of Victoria’s government-owned funding vehicle LaunchVic has taken a huge hit in the wake of the 500 Startups scandal. Its response to revelations of 500 Startups co-founder...

Suddenly space is really, really big

The US famously went from nowhere to the moon in ten years, so maybe Australia can get a space agency up and running in three times that time period....

An attacker from within: UBank

Lee Hatton arrives with an Amazon Alexa device for one of UBank’s meeting rooms; she wants to know how people use it and whether it could become a new...

Pressure grows as 500 Canada shuts

Pressure is mounting on the Victorian government to pull its funding support for 500 Startups as the global ramifications of a sexual harassment scandal continue to hit the trouble-plagued...

CBD’s are so hot for tech right now

Australian startups and other tech companies are returning to the centre of major cities in droves as office trends shift away from Silicon Valley-style campuses, according to a new...

Alibaba Cloud pitches a contest

Ecommerce giant Alibaba is on the lookout for Australian and New Zealand startup talent and will host its first pitching competition in Sydney in September to find a pair...

Mike Pratt: New man in Treasury

When Michael Pratt puts his feet under his new desk today – his first as Secretary of The Treasury in NSW – he brings to the role not just...

CSIRO silent on drug testing

The CSIRO’s involvement with the government’s drug testing of welfare recipients is still up in the air as new documents reveal the organisation has still not signed a contract...

The fifth domain: Brown on Cyber

Retired US Navy Rear-Admiral Mike Brown has spent a lot of time grappling with Cyber as the fifth domain of warfare, and as a pioneer in developing only operational...

An upgrade to the Great Firewall?

China has continued to step up efforts to censor the internet and all things digital with promises to block the virtual private networks that enable users to jump over...

$30b NBN blunder: More bad news

Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network (NBN) was comprehensively undermined last week when BT’s Openreach CEO Clive Selley indicated that 10 million UK premises could have Fibre to...